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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

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For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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I don’t cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That’s the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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